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RJW Logistics Group

Logistics Planner

Posted 24 Days Ago
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In-Office
Romeoville, IL, USA
24-24 Hourly
Entry level
In-Office
Romeoville, IL, USA
24-24 Hourly
Entry level
Coordinates warehouse freight coverage, carrier relationships, trailer pools, routing guides, rate confirmations, and shipment tracking. Ensures timely pickups and deliveries while maintaining OTIF and margin targets. Escalates carrier, warehouse, and customer service issues; supports the Logistics Planning Manager and may cover the manager’s duties. The role also requires reporting, scheduling, communication, problem-solving, and spreadsheet and business software skills.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities

Pay: 24.03/hr + Monthly Bonus


Job Purpose: The Logistics Coordinator acts as the first point of escalation for any potential issues that may affect the fulfillment of customer orders. This position is responsible to maintain a 98% or higher OTIF score and a 15% or higher margin.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Aid and assist for any needs of the Manager of Logistics Planning
  • Able to fill for Manager of Logistics Planning if needed
  • Manage warehouse routing guide
  • Ensure all freight for given warehouse is covered
  • Coordinating and organizing pool summary for given warehouse
  • Work with given carrier base
  • Coordinate with team if warehouse carrier base cannot cover
  • Coordinate with wolfpack to cover if team's carrier base cannot cover
  • Make sure freight is preloaded on RJW trailer if our existing carrier base cannot cover
  • Other tasks as assigned by manager. Manage Warehouse Trailer Pool
  • Two (2) RJW trailers on site
  • Two (2) Carriers with at least 2 trailers on site
  • Coordinate with warehouse to make sure onsite trailers are being utilized
  • Work with transport if needed to make sure trailers are being backed into warehouse to be preloaded.
  • Send rate confirmations to carrier(s) within the warehouse routing guide
  • Notify carrier(s) when trailers are loaded and ready to be picked up
  • Work with the tracking team if needed for updates to ensure loads are picked up/delivered on time
  • Maintain a 98% or higher on time deliver percentage
  • Maintain a 15% or higher margin
  • Work within warehouse carrier base and another team's carrier base to increase margin if possible
  • Notify team lead of any issues
  • Carrier related
  • Warehouse related
  • CSS related
  • Manage/maintain relationships with warehouse carrier base

 

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Efficiently management skills.
  • Interpersonal skills.
  • Planning / scheduling skills.
  • Good judgement.
  • Ability to create reports.
  • Good communication skills.

Qualifications:

  • Past logistics planning management experience.
  • Efficiency management skills.

 

Education and/or Experience Required:

  • High School Diploma or general education diploma (GED) is preferred.

Language Skills Sets:

  • Must be able to communicate, read, write, and speak English.
  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers.

Mathematical Skills:

  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:

  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Ability to determine "root cause" of problem and determine corrective action.

Computer Skills:

  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must have knowledge of Business Operating Systems, Internet software, Word Processing, and Spreadsheet software.

Physical Demands:

  • Must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
  • Must be able to activate phone systems utilizing keyboards and buttons.
  • Must be articulate and comfortable speaking in front of others.
  • Regularly works in an indoor/office environment and required to sit and/or use repetitive hand motion.
  • Frequently required to talk, hear, stand and walk.
  • Must be able to work in excess of continuous 8 hours when required.
  • Must be able to work under stressful situations, have good cognitive skills, maintain work accuracy, and the ability to concentrate on more than one task at a time.
  • Must have the ability to read and discern visual images on a variety of media with 20/20 corrected vision.
  • Must be able to speak and communicate clearly over telephones.
  • Must be in sound physical health as determined by a certified licensed physician with no evidence of the use of controlled substances.

Work Environment:

  • While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, and fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment will range from quiet to moderately loud.

Employer Rights:

This job description is intended to provide general information about the Logistics Planner position. The above does not constitute an exhaustive list of the job duties to be performed by an associate holding the position of Logistics Planner, nor are the lists of the physical requirements and environmental conditions exhaustive. You may be asked by your supervisor or managers to perform other duties. Your performance will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the job duties listed in this job description, as well as any job duties not specifically listed above that you may be asked from time to time to perform.

As with all positions, the duties and responsibilities are subject to change at any time as needs arise and at the discretion of the RJW Transport, Inc. The Company has the right to revise this job description at any time.

Employment-At-Will:

It is the Company's policy that all associates, other than those covered by a written individual employment or labor agreement with the Company that has been authorized in writing by the Company's Chief Executive Officer or Board of Directors, are not employed for any fixed term and are employed at the will of the Company for an indefinite period. Just as our associate's, reserve the right to resign their employment at any time for any reason the Company reserves its right to terminate an associate any time for any reason either with or without cause.


Neither this Job Description nor any of its individual terms constitutes commitments between the Company and its associates as to the terms, conditions or duration of employment, nor does it modify the prevailing Employment-At-Will relationship.


Compensation & BenefitsWe offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability, paid holidays, time off, retirement savings plan participation, and additional employee programs.

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